I'd have let you off anyway because you were on a Surly. International brother/sisterhood etc.
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(14531 posts)- Started 14 years ago by recombodna
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Was that @gembo in front of me on the towpath this morning at about 0745. Joined at Wester Hailes and left at Sighthill? Resplendent in pink Rapha top.
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Riding to work yesterday on the MTB with my Henty suit-carrier backpack on. Got to the bottom of Bonaly road and came across another MTB riding henty suit-carrier backpack wearing cyclist.
Met him again at the end of the canal. Tried to make eye contact in a "same bike type, same commuting rucksack, same route to work" type of way but he resisted the, clear to me, magnetism and refused the offer of eternal friendship I was projecting though my watering eyes.
It could have been a truly beautiful moment where we'd have both done that "nod head and smile wryly at similar life choices" thing, but we didn't. I rode to work dejected.
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You sure you weren’t seeing a version of you in a parallel universe?
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Ah yes, the famous Bonaly Road Time Loop.
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@ARobComp
1) your last batch of artisanal acid got bretty, or
2) these are the Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified CommuterPosted 5 years ago # -
Dr. Jekyll, meet Mr Hyde...
Alternatively, from Invasion Of The Body Snatchers: "They're Coming!!!"
Or, Arnie discovers his holographic doppelgänger in Total Recall. "Get your ass to Mars!" Question is, are you Hauser or Quaid?
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Good one from a few evenings ago: was waiting at the lights of Ratcliffe Terrace/West Mayfield and there were cyclists waiting to cross at all four corners. On the pavement. This is the Quality Bike Improvement Corridor.
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Morningsider in the Edinburgh suburb you'd expect, returning from investigating a Takeaway bike that appears to have been abandoned nearby.
The bike is quite neatly parked, but it's definitely a long way from the nearest dock and it's been there some time.
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Greenroofer - the bike was neatly parked by me yesterday morning, it was previously dumped in the gutter. I notified serco yesterday morning and again this morning. Hopefully it will be collected today.
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I think I may have seen unhurt this morning about 0850 just around the coltbridge
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Ellipti-Go being piloted up Gilmerton Road yesterday.
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The canal pusher-inner passing me at Wester Hailes in a decidedly cheerful mood (for her at least) this morning.
LaidBack effortlessly overtaking me on a recumbent contraption* on NMW just now (*negative connotations excluded).
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@greenroofer, someone stole my look? Been in suit all week, indeed will have it on at Soderberg tomorrow back of 8 with the lecky bike as full of the cold ( since Sun 10th Feb so should not be infectious)
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This cycle lane ended in 2005, at the latest.
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@steveo wisnae me, I'm afraid.
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Just as well I didn't wave!
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Wingpig with mini wingpig in tow, in pedestrian mode at Leith Decides earlier today.
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Former former The Cow of Wilmington on his elephant Gilmore place as I was heading to soderberg FKA Peter's Yard. I had spotted him from afar so he got the full clenched fist salute. Seems to cheer him along
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Fat bike with aero bars on Porty Prom today.
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@urchaidh
Fat bike with aero bars on Porty Prom today.Rider joined in ERC group a few weeks ago. Our African lodger chatted to him as was fascinated to find out more. (Not approved of by general peleton of course!) He knows a carbon recumbent can be fast but surely a fat bike is burning energy at higher rate? Think reasoning is that it is not too slow and can still go on paths that road bikes can't. A bit like a super cross bike.... but with higher work out rate = less efficient than 700c narrow tired road bike or recliner.
His classification of such outliers as LB users and Fat Bike TTrs are 'lone rangers'. On a journey towards non comformity :-)
Update... Fat Aero Bike / FAB spotted again today near Pencaitland. Moving along quite quickly - tyres are failrly smooth so will roll well I'm sure - outcomfort standard road bikes too.
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did scotland lose the rugby today ?
i really hope so
because i detest the edinburgh landlord class
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Everyone is entitled to an opinion but even allowing for CCE I'm not sure I can see the connection to the spotted thread.
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Your private life drama, baby, leave me out
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Was in Akva for a leaving do. Friday after work. Upstairs. Spotted a very heavy table tennis ball. Yellow colour. So I took on two work colleagues. Some good rallies. Was a little gloomy so my high speed top spin serve was not so easy to return so we went for who could put as much side spinnonnthe ball as possible. Interestingly with a heavy ball this was OK as you could pretty much always return it. I did tire (still have Nasty cold) playing one against two but was fun. I retired back to the leaving do and my opponents played against each other but lost the ball.
I could look out the windows and see the spot where I had the lecky bike parked up on the AstroTurf, the outside was busiest it has ever been in February. I vote Akva for next beer night. The somewhat sterile atmosphere exacerbated by musician doing John Denver covers was ameliorated by the table tennis.
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@Gembo - agree that Akva is good choice. Featured in last few LB EdFoC events.
Is heavy table tennis ball valid for being 'spotted'? - though I see you mentioned 'leccy bike' thus avoiding wrath of admin!
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Thanks laidback, I could spot the heavy yellow ball in a way I struggle to do so with the lighter white ones, esp. In the descending darkness but yes, I could spot the lecky bike out the big window, I chained it to itself and put kickstand down so it was really just outside the door. So yes skirting the wrath of the admin but not over the line Smokey. This is not Nam, there are rules.
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Wee balance bike with drop bars.
(In Porty again, obvs.)Posted 5 years ago # -
A stone wall in the shape of a boat on the roundabout at the south end of Girvan with two foot tall lettering that reads "WHIT'S YOUR HURRY?".
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